Creative Commons International
South Korea
The South Korea license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.
The latest version of the licenses available for this jurisdiction are:
- Attribution 2.0 Korea
- Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Korea
- Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Korea
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Korea
- Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Korea
- Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Korea
Many thanks to all who contributed to the license-porting process. This page remains for reference.
Please take a look at the mailing-list archive if you are interested in the academic discussion leading to the South Korea final license.
Creative Commons is working with KAFIL to create Korea jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.
CCi Korea List
Project Leads: Professor Dae-Hee Lee (Inha Law School) and Jongsoo Yoon (Seoul Northern District Court)
More about Korea Association for Infomedia Law (KAFIL)
KAFIL was found in 1996 by distinguished leadership of Judge Chan-Hyun Hwang. KAFIL is an abbreviation of Korea Association for Info-Media Law, so it has focused on information law issues. KAFIL is unique especially in its member composition. The majority of regular member is judges and public prosecutors. So, it has situated itself as the leading law association in Korea bridging academicians and legal professionals. KAFIL has operated annual symposium schedule usually in June, and three other academic seminars annually. Also, it has held case study workshops on bimonthly basis which has been a hot debatable forum among legal professionals. KAFIL also published its own law journal on biannual basis.
For more information about KAFIL, visit
